bash
Bash Features
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This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the
Bash shell (version 4.4, 7 September 2016). The Bash home page is
<http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/>.
This is Edition 4.4, last updated 7 September 2016, of 'The GNU Bash
Reference Manual', for 'Bash', Version 4.4.
Bash contains features that appear in other popular shells, and some
features that only appear in Bash. Some of the shells that Bash has
borrowed concepts from are the Bourne Shell ('sh'), the Korn Shell
('ksh'), and the C-shell ('csh' and its successor, 'tcsh'). The
following menu breaks the features up into categories, noting which
features were inspired by other shells and which are specific to Bash.
This manual is meant as a brief introduction to features found in
Bash. The Bash manual page should be used as the definitive reference
on shell behavior.
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